Improvement in seed-planters



GREEN `E KENNEDY;

Hand-Seeder.

No. 15,101. Patented June 10, 1.856.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

P. B. GREEN, OF CHICAGO, AND E. A. KENNEDY, OF NEWARK, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 15,101, dated June 10,1856.

To all whom 'it 'may concern.'

Beit known that we, PLYMON B. GREEN, of

vthe city ot' Chicago, in the county of Cook, in'

the State of Illinois, (late of the town of Waukegan, in the county ofLake, in the State of 1lliuois,) and EDWARD A. KENNEDY, of the town ofNewark, in the County of Kendall, in the State of Illinois, haveinvented a new, useful, and Improved Corn-Planter for Planting Corn andother Coarse Grain; and We do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specilication, in which said speciiication- Figure l is aperspective view 3 Fig. 2, a sectional side view, representing theplanter with the foot A resting upon the ground and the mouth E closed.In this position the planter is represented as being forced down intothe ground with the orifice o in seed-slide b, which receives the cornat the bottom ofcorn-boX F, and retains it until the machine slides downon seed-slide b, when orifice n, at the top of groove m, comes inconnection with orifice o in seed-slide b. The corn passes down to mouthE. On raising the planter from the ground the mouth E is thrown open byraising the movable back H, depositing the corn in the ground. At thesame time the spiral springC forces the seed-slide b down, when theplanter assumes the position as represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asectional front view, representing side springs, h h, and catches l l,which prevent the machine from sliding down on the seedslide b until themouth is closed. The gage 1J is held in its place by screws q q q, whichcan be moved up or down, so as to diminish or increase the orifice o insuch a manner as to effeet the delivery ot' the proper number of kernelsfor each hill of' corn. e e, stop-screws in slide; c, stop-cleat; a,bottom of corn-box.

What we claim as our invent-ion, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The seed-slide b, in combination with the foot A, side springs,h, andcatches l, arranged and operating in the manner and for the purpose setforth.

PLYMON B. GREEN. EDWARD A. KENNEDY.

In presence of- WILLIAM C. GREEN, CHARLES F. KENNEDY.

